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Getting the input from your form.

Hi!

Wonder if anyone there can point me to a direction. In a dropdown selection list within a form, I am trying to pass the selected item to a "where" clause in a select statement, but I can't get the value from the dropdown selection list. I have try sending the select variable through the HTTP_POST_VARS['myselect'], but the variable is empty.

In the <form> tag I use something like this:
<option value="Phone" name="myselect">phone
<option value="address" name="myselect">address
.........

and
within the <?php> tag I have statement like:
$myselect=HTTP_POST_VARS['myselect'];
select fields.... from table where $myselect .....

If I can get the variable value from the form, worse case I can hard code the select statement using a case loop. Thanks in advance.